Acting in Nature: Service Events and Agency in Wilderness Guiding

Tourist Studies

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 164-180

  Valkonen, Jarno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bruno Latour; collective; human nature relationship; sociology; tourism work; wilderness guiding

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952490836     PISSN: 14687976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468797609360595     Document Type: Article

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